OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
So, Ford has a TSB on this bloody problem. Applies to the 4.6L, 5.4L and 6.8L Modular engines.
The throttle body gets varnish around the blade, and it starts to stick. As temperatures drop, it gets worse.
It is cold here now. I haven't cleaned the blade since about three oil changes ago (30,000Km roughly) and she's been sticking a lot lately.
Today, on my way home from work, she stuck at two intersections. Nothing like having your 6,000lb SUV going sideways because your gas pedal sticks while you are stopped at the light in the turning lane and when you go to go ahead you have to press a bit harder to get the pedal to move... then it breaks free and BWA-AAAAHHHHHHHHH there she goes! Fun? Yes. But a bit embarrassing when you DON'T mean to act like an idiot, LOL! (look at that retard in the Expedition!).
So, when I got home, out came the AC Delco combustion chamber cleaner (yes mechanicx, I don't hate EVERYTHING GM!) and cleaned the blade and throttle body up. Now it doesn't stick at all. But I find I have to do this a couple times a year.
My parent's is starting to stick too. But this is the first time.... since new. So no where near the same magnitude of an issue with their truck. Once in TEN years? LOL! VS twice a year for me!
The differences would be that their truck has had M1 since it stopped getting the free dealer changes around 100,000Km, whilst ours had ?????? until I bought it. Seems to be worse with M1..... I'm hoping it is the cleaning, LOL! And of course the second difference is that I drive like "Mario Andretti" according to my sister, whilst my dad drives a bit like a Ms. Daisy.
Who else with a Modular has experienced this?
The throttle body gets varnish around the blade, and it starts to stick. As temperatures drop, it gets worse.
It is cold here now. I haven't cleaned the blade since about three oil changes ago (30,000Km roughly) and she's been sticking a lot lately.
Today, on my way home from work, she stuck at two intersections. Nothing like having your 6,000lb SUV going sideways because your gas pedal sticks while you are stopped at the light in the turning lane and when you go to go ahead you have to press a bit harder to get the pedal to move... then it breaks free and BWA-AAAAHHHHHHHHH there she goes! Fun? Yes. But a bit embarrassing when you DON'T mean to act like an idiot, LOL! (look at that retard in the Expedition!).
So, when I got home, out came the AC Delco combustion chamber cleaner (yes mechanicx, I don't hate EVERYTHING GM!) and cleaned the blade and throttle body up. Now it doesn't stick at all. But I find I have to do this a couple times a year.
My parent's is starting to stick too. But this is the first time.... since new. So no where near the same magnitude of an issue with their truck. Once in TEN years? LOL! VS twice a year for me!
The differences would be that their truck has had M1 since it stopped getting the free dealer changes around 100,000Km, whilst ours had ?????? until I bought it. Seems to be worse with M1..... I'm hoping it is the cleaning, LOL! And of course the second difference is that I drive like "Mario Andretti" according to my sister, whilst my dad drives a bit like a Ms. Daisy.
Who else with a Modular has experienced this?
